Stop Screaming at the Microwave
How to Connect Your Disconnected Life
Excerpt
Chapter One: When You Can't Keep Up
Hurried and worried until we are buried, and there's no curtain call, Life is a very funny proposition, after all.
- George M. Cohan
I got home from work and flopped into my easy chair, totally exhausted. I turned on the answering machine and heard the baby-sitter for my (then) five-year-old son Nicholas. She explained how she had driven him to preschool that morning, walked into the classroom and saw before her nineteen little boys and girls, all sitting in a circle, wiggling with excitement, and...she noticed, each one of them was wearing a Halloween costume.
All of them except Nicholas.
She went on to describe (in brutal detail) how he had burst into tears, clung to her leg, and begged to go home.
OK. So Mother of the Year I wasn't. In fact, I felt like the worst parent on the planet. Despite my best efforts to keep all those plates spinning, I had let one fall. I had humiliated my child in front of his friends. I felt overwhelmed and exhausted, and I vowed then and there I would ... read full excerpt from: Stop Screaming at the Microwave: How to Connect Your Disconnected Life ebook
